By Ochogwu Sunday The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka says there are no plans to a...
By Ochogwu Sunday
The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria
(AMEN), Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka says there are no plans to attack the Bishop of
Enugu Diocese, Bishop Callistus Onaga.
In a viral video during a recent protest by members of
Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry, one of the parishioners, later identified as
Elijah, threatened to kill Bishop Callistus Onaga of Enugu Catholic Diocese for
shutting down the Adoration Ministry. The protesting parishioners were also
seen chanting ‘Onaga Must go’.
The development has already attracted condemnation from the
Pope.
DAILY POST recalls that Bishop Onaga ordered the suspension
of the ministry’s operation after Mbaka’s outburst against the Labour Party
presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, naming him a ‘stingy man’.
However, in a live video on the ministry’s Facebook page,
Mbaka who said he is currently on a personal retreat following the
controversies surrounding his outbursts, said the Adoration ministry had no
plan to attack the Bishop.
According to him, the said Elijah who made the utterance to
kill Bishop Onaga is a verified psychiatric patient who should not be taken
seriously.
He said, “I wish to do a disclaimer over the utterances that
are going round that Adoration people planned to attack Bishop Onaga. It is not
true. The man called Elijah who made the dangerous utterance, is a certified
and verified psychiatric patient.
“Elijah used to be naked but by the grace of God, he now
wears clothes. He is known for threatening people even though after the threat,
he will not do anything. That is his own way of making money from people.
“Elijah had even threatened to kill me if I didn’t
forcefully and prayerfully make him chairman of all the local governments in
Enugu State. Elijah wants to be the chairman of all the 17 local governments.
This is the kind of person he is. He even wanted me to make him the president
or else he would kill me.
“He has said several times that he wants to remove Bishop
Onaga and become the Bishop of Enugu Diocese. Is this the person you can regard
his utterances? No attack or plan to attack the Bishop from the Adoration
Ministry. Whoever is thinking of that, I wash my hands off it”.
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